About "Bent Not Broken" by Mickillinit

This is my spine. I am no angel but I battle gravity every day, and so do hundreds of thousands of other people like me... I will donate 5-10% of my winnings to Scoliosis research and awareness. The rest will go to getting me help. Please vote 5 to help all people with this painful condition!

I know a thing or two about persistence. This is my second attempt at submitting this design because I know that the first decline was a mistake. I have lots of people excited about it already. This design WILL GET FUNDED!

I've tried to fill out the fund it form 5 times and it says "We're sorry your order could not be completed, please check your form information and try again.". Super frustrating. Trying to fund it! I know the info is correct, it's pretty basic.

I think maybe I funded it.... After a few error messages, it said I was successful (which, quite frankly, gives me pause, as I am not impressively experienced with success....) anyways, I think your design slays the competition; add to that the cause (opposed to being kitschy or vaguely ironic) - I'd start counting chickens if I were you!

Thompson98 you and a couple other people against an otherwise hugely positive response from my social networks and even several people from the Threadless community. Whatever. I guess some people prefer cheesy irony over realness.

Threadless please give mickillinit more time. It's only fair. The site wasn't working on the holiday weekend so she has a disadvantage. She has a great chance of winning. She's my girl so I know how much pain she's in . This can help her with physical therapy and other ways to heal. Plus her designs is dope anyways!!! Thanks for listening. ???? pretty please?

Thank you noknow! Whoever you are!! (Nome!?) This really isn't designed well in terms of interacting with supporters. You probably won't even get this response. Hopefully Threadless gets the feedback!!

Funded from On, Canada by another human with scoliosis (my curve is lower, between my bottom ribs and my hips). The design is great, personal, I do love it and the well interpreted weirdness of a wonky spine.

wow thompson98 you're really after me eh? i checked public domain/creative commons. whoever made it should be stopping the full-size image from being licensed for reuse & distribution on the internet if they care.

So deeply inspired by this- by the courageous act of forging pain in the fire and transforming it into art- into an expression that it wearable- into something that moves us, and allows others to see themselves in it- to say- "me too". "I know that pain and I refuse it to break me- to keep me down." "I am not alone in this think that feels so utterly isolating, and mine, and misunderstood".

Thank you- from all of us who have lost days and weeks and months to pain- to immobility- for reminding us that our spirits have wings- and the single greatest thing we can do with our pain is to give it a voice- to release the shame and shackles from it that is so isolating and false. We are not alone. May it birth our greatest masterpieces within us right from our crooked core. Deep bows to you sister. Thank you- thank you. Thank you.

i love how your bagging all of us and even going through my designs. If you were here for more than 5 minutes, you would know that there was a mickey mouse challenge working with disney, so it wasnt copyright for that challenge. That is when I submitted it. Please do research first. And don't act like a child when you receive criticism. Your opinion isn't the only one...

what is the point of criticizing other people's efforts? if you don't like it, don't vote. easy. you're the only one on here writing one. I am not here for art critique. I'm not critiquing anyone elses art. I'm actually supporting my competitors. I'm here to try to inspire and help myself and a lot of other deserving people... quite a few of those people have commented above, including people not in my network. win or lose i'm doing something positive.